Re: [PATCH] mm, gup: introduce concept of "foreign" get_user_pages()

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 01/22/2016 07:02 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> One of Vlastimil's comments made me go dig back in to the uprobes
> code's use of get_user_pages().  I decided to change both of them
> to be "foreign" accesses.
> 
> This also fixes the nommu breakage that Vlastimil noted last time.
> 
> Srikar, I'd appreciate if you can have a look at the uprobes.c
> modifications, especially the comment.  I don't think this will
> change any behavior, but I want to make sure the comment is
> accurate.
> 
> ---
> 
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> For protection keys, we need to understand whether protections
> should be enforced in software or not.  In general, we enforce
> protections when working on our own task, but not when on others.
> We call these "current" and "foreign" operations.
> 
> This patch introduces a new get_user_pages() variant:
> 
> 	get_user_pages_foreign()
> 
> We modify the vanilla get_user_pages() so it can no longer be
> used on mm/tasks other than 'current/current->mm', which is by
> far the most common way it is called.  Using it makes a few of
> the call sites look a bit nicer.
> 
> In other words, get_user_pages_foreign() is a replacement for
> when get_user_pages() is called on non-current tsk/mm.
> 
> This also switches get_user_pages_(un)locked() over to be like
> get_user_pages() and not take a tsk/mm.  There is no
> get_user_pages_foreign_(un)locked().  If someone wants that
> behavior they just have to use "__" variant and pass in
> FOLL_FOREIGN explicitly.
> 
> The uprobes is_trap_at_addr() location holds mmap_sem and
> calls get_user_pages(current->mm) on an instruction address.  This
> makes it a pretty unique gup caller.  Being an instruction access
> and also really originating from the kernel (vs. the app), I opted
> to consider this a 'foreign' access where protection keys will not
> be enforced.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: vbabka@xxxxxxx

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

But,

>  long __get_user_pages_unlocked(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
>  			       unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
>  			       int write, int force, struct page **pages,
>  			       unsigned int gup_flags)
>  {
>  	long ret;
> -	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> -	ret = get_user_pages(tsk, mm, start, nr_pages, write, force,
> -			     pages, NULL);
> -	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> +	down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
> +	ret = get_user_pages(start, nr_pages, write, force, pages, NULL);
> +	up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);

I understand your reply to lkp report also means that this no longer locks
current's mmap_sem? :)

Vlastimil